Sections* | Bornholm | Herning/Holstebro† | Herlev† | Hillerød | Horsens | Hvidovre† | Odense/Svendborg | Randers | Rigshospitalet | Roskilde† | Skejby | Thy-Mors | Viborg† | Mean score |
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Leaflet publication date | February 2012 | September 2012 | September 2014 | June 2015 | May 2013 | December 2014 | May 2015 | February 2015 | March 2015 | December 2014 | March 2015 | October 2014 | July 2013 | |
Does the information leaflet… | ||||||||||||||
(1) Start with a clear statement of aims? | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2.0 |
(2) Provide unbiased and detailed information about options? | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2.3 |
(3) Present probabilities of outcomes in an understandable way? | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.3 |
(4) Contain accurate information? | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.2 |
(5) Help patients to make appropriate decisions? | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.9 |
(6) Disclose conflicts of interest? | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1.2 |
(7) Have a clear structure and layout? | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 3.3 |
(8) Help the reader to judge its reliability? | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2.5 |
(9) Provide unbiased information about the use of non-registered drugs? | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2.0 |
Total score‡ | 14 | 19 | 18 | 16 | 18 | 18 | 22 | 15 | 25 | 17 | 21 | 12 | 17 | 17.9 |
All Danish obstetric departments that used an induction agent by week 25, 2015. N=13.
*Each section (1–8) is described in more detail in online supplementary table S1. Section 9 is described in more detail in table 2.
†These hospitals had two leaflets on labour induction. The two leaflets were scored together as one package.
‡Possible minimum=9. Possible maximum=45.